Commando School

The Recruits of 180 Troop begin the first 2 weeks of Recruit Training. In foundation Recruits will be taught the raw basics in Admin and fitness.
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Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:41:41 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10441

Final Exercise and Passout

Final Exercises and Pass out parade taken from Maroon Machine series.
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Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:31:53 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10438

Making Marines

Full documentary covering all phases of Marine Corps Boot Camp on Parris Island. Covers Receiving Phase through The Crucible.

Exercise Panzer Strike

Orange flames exploded across the wide, barren land, followed by resounding echos in the cold wind.

This was a common occurrence for over 150 Operationally Ready National Servicemen (NSmen) tankees participating in Exercise Panzer Strike 2017. Held in the Oberlausitz Military Training Area, Germany, the exercise was an opportunity for them to hone their skills in a new environment and catch up with each other.

Tour of the Big Guns

At the most recent Big Sandy Shoot, big gun expert Robert Bigando gave us a tour of the nearly two dozen big guns on display at the event.

The Big Sandy Shoot is a biannual event that takes place near Wikieup, Arizona, in April and October of each year. The event attracts hundreds of shooters, machine guns and large caliber guns. The most recent shoot was held from October 20 to 22, 2017. It saw the largest turn out of big guns in the event’s 30 year history. This included the largest civilian owned gun – the 152mm Russian D20 howitzer.

These guns are owned by big gun enthusiasts such as Bigando. He bought his first 20mm when he was only 20 years old. In fact, he had to wait until he was 21 to be able transfer it to himself. It didn’t take long for him to go from the 20mm, to a 25mm, to a 57mm, to a 90mm and so on. Bigando is now a sought after expert in the domain. He had three guns at Big Sandy, and worked on many of the others.

According to Bigando, owning a big gun is very similar to owning a machine gun in terms of both paperwork and cost. “A good Bofors gun can probably be picked up for $25,000.” he said. “So you got to ask yourself, what would you rather have? An M-16, or a 37mm Bofors?”

King Tiger

Known variously as the Tiger Ausf. B, Tiger II or Königstiger (the British also referred to it as the `Royal Tiger’), 489 Tiger IIs, were produced at the Henschel assembly plant, between January 1944 and March 1945. However, despite lacking in numbers, and being prone to mechanical and mobility issues based on its size and weight, the Tiger IIs combination of devastating firepower, and thick sloped armour plate, made it a formidable adversary.
Credit : The Tank Museum
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:55:31 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10407

The Last US Heavy Tank

The M103 Heavy Tank (initially T43) served in the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps. The last M103s were withdrawn from service in 1974. The M103 was the last heavy tank to be used by the US.Military as the concept of the main battle tank evolved, making heavy tanks obsolete.
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:07:14 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10399

14-Inch Naval Guns

Long range German artillery was quite effective during World War I, especially in Belgium where it put allied port operations at risk.
Unfortunately, allied counter fires were insufficient in range to counter the threat. After considering the problem, the Navy Department approved mounting 14-inch naval guns to railway cars.
The result was a railroad gun, manned by U.S. Navy Sailors, that could hit well behind the German lines with devastating results.
Credit : Daniel Garas
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:42:10 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10396

Secret Nazi Antarctic Base

Did the Germans have a secret base in Antarctica during World War II. Is there any truth in this tale? Did U-Boats visit Antarctica, and did the Germans hide enormous wealth or secret technology among its snowy mountains? In this film you will discover the real extent of Nazi operations in the Antarctic, based on the available evidence.
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:35:20 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10390

Mark IV Tank

Indy and Tank Museum curator David Willey take a look at the British Mark IV tank. Over 1000 of these tanks were built and they are an iconic symbol of early tank warfare during World War 1. We discuss crew conditions and other important details in this episode.
Credit: The Great War
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:20:35 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10387

The last German POW in America

In 1985 a federal fugitive chose to turn himself in after evading an FBI manhunt for forty years.
This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As images of actual events are sometimes not available, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration.
This episode deals with a period of conflict. All events are portrayed in historical context and for educational purposes. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Credit: The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:35:03 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10382

Pershing vs. T-34

The Battle around the Pusan Perimeter during 1950 saw a showdown between the relatively untried American Pershing tank and the battle-hardened North Korean T-34/85. Neither had encountered each other before, but the outcome would establish who had the best Armour during the rest of the Korean conflict, with important consequences.
Credit : Mark Felton Productions

Crewing Up

Britains Biggest Warship : Crewing Up Episode 1
In this first episode, Film-maker Chris Terrill captures an intimate and personal portrait of life on board ultra-modern super aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, as its crew learns the intricacies of a warship that will change the way Britain goes to war. In this first instalment, early 2016 sees sailors begin to arrive in Rosyth dockyard in Scotland where the ship is still in construction, but nearing completion. Captain Jerry Kyd and his 700 sailors are assembling to take the prototype warship to sea for the first time. These trials herald what should be 50 years of service.
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:38:03 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10376

Amazing Explosions

Here are some amazing Explosions that were caught on Camera
Properties of explosions
Force
Explosive force is released in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the explosive. If a grenade is in mid air during the explosion, the direction of the blast will be 360°. In contrast, in a shaped charge the explosive forces are focused to produce a greater local effect.
Velocity
The speed of the reaction is what distinguishes an explosive reaction from an ordinary combustion reaction. Unless the reaction occurs very rapidly, the thermally expanding gases will be moderately dissipated in the medium, with no large differential in pressure and there will be no explosion. Consider a wood fire. As the fire burns, there certainly is the evolution of heat and the formation of gases, but neither is liberated rapidly enough to build up a sudden substantial pressure differential and then cause an explosion. This can be likened to the difference between the energy discharge of a battery, which is slow, and that of a flash capacitor like that in a camera flash, which releases its energy all at once.
Evolution of heat
The generation of heat in large quantities accompanies most explosive chemical reactions. The exceptions are called entropic explosives and include organic peroxides such as acetone peroxide[2] It is the rapid liberation of heat that causes the gaseous products of most explosive reactions to expand and generate high pressures. This rapid generation of high pressures of the released gas constitutes the explosion. The liberation of heat with insufficient rapidity will not cause an explosion. For example, although a unit mass of coal yields five times as much heat as a unit mass of nitroglycerin, the coal cannot be used as an explosive (except in the form of coal dust) because the rate at which it yields this heat is quite slow. In fact, a substance which burns less rapidly (i.e. slow combustion) may actually evolve more total heat than an explosive which detonates rapidly (i.e. fast combustion). In the former, slow combustion converts more of the internal energy (i.e. chemical potential) of the burning substance into heat released to the surroundings, while in the latter, fast combustion (i.e. detonation) instead converts more internal energy into work on the surroundings (i.e. less internal energy converted into heat); c.f. heat and work (thermodynamics) are equivalent forms of energy. See Heat of Combustion for a more thorough treatment of this topic.
When a chemical compound is formed from its constituents, heat may either be absorbed or released. The quantity of heat absorbed or given off during transformation is called the heat of formation. Heats of formations for solids and gases found in explosive reactions have been determined for a temperature of 25 °C and atmospheric pressure, and are normally given in units of kilojoules per gram-molecule. A positive value indicates that heat is absorbed during the formation of the compound from its elements; such a reaction is called an endothermic reaction. In explosive technology only materials that are exothermic—that have a net liberation of heat and have a negative heat of formation—are of interest. Reaction heat is measured under conditions either of constant pressure or constant volume. It is this heat of reaction that may be properly expressed as the “heat of explosion.”
Initiation of reaction
A chemical explosive is a compound or mixture which, upon the application of heat or shock, decomposes or rearranges with extreme rapidity, yielding much gas and heat. Many substances not ordinarily classed as explosives may do one, or even two, of these things.
A reaction must be capable of being initiated by the application of shock, heat, or a catalyst (in the case of some explosive chemical reactions) to a small portion of the mass of the explosive material. A material in which the first three factors exist cannot be accepted as an explosive unless the reaction can be made to occur when needed.
Fragmentation
Fragmentation is the accumulation and projection of particles as the result of a high explosives detonation. Fragments could be part of a structure such as a magazine. High velocity, low angle fragments can travel hundreds or thousands of feet with enough energy to initiate other surrounding high explosive items, injure or kill personnel and damage vehicles or structures.
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Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:03:01 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10370

DIVARTY

U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division Artillery compete in the annual DIVARTY Best of the Best Competition on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Dec. 3-6, 2018.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Donovan Thomas, a section chief for an M119 105 mm howitzer and paratrooper assigned to 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Abn. Div., expressed the importance of synergy within a cannon crew team.
The Best of the Best Competition promoted the development of section skills, esprit de corps, and cohesion across the division.
Credit : U.S. Army video by Spc. Alleea Oliver
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Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:44:59 +0000https://www.military-stuff.org/?p=10367

2018 Best of Best Competition

Over 120 U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division Artillery compete in the annual DIVARTY Best of the Best Competition on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Dec. 3-6, 2018. The Best of the Best Competition promoted the development of section skills, esprit de corps, and cohesion across the division.
Credit: U.S. Army video by Spc. Alleea Oliver
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